Gardner v. San Gabriel Valley Bank

This is an action to quiet plaintiffs’ title to an easement, and to restrain defendant from interfering with the use by plaintiffs and their tenants of a stairway in the rear of defendant’s building, and the maintenance by said tenants of their professional and business signs in the passageway and entrance to said stairway, such right being claimed under an easement alleged to have been created by deed.

Judgment was for defendant and plaintiffs appeal from the judgment.

From the findings it appears that during the year 1886 one Chas. A. Gardner, who was the owner of a lot numbered 1 on a…